|22| G || @ @ Eve waz the |commit, iz asking too mutch ov enny | |23| M || first woman @ |man theze days. | |24| T || _raw cold_ @ @ | | |25| W || who fooled | * * * * * | |26| T || her man | | |27| F || | Pitty costs nothing,--and aint | |28| S || _sharp frost_ @ | wuth nothing. | |29| G || | | |30| M || @ down with @ | | |31| T || @ the taxes @ | | +--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ _THE THOUGHTFUL FOX._ The Fox iz a literary bird; he waz a genius long before akedemick honors flourished; he waz a poet, skoller, and sage, before the days ov Homer and Herodotus; and in our times he iz the Ben Butler ov diplomacy, and the Brigham Yung ov matrimonial ethicks. The fox haz no moral honesty but he haz got a grate supply of _politikal honesty_. If another Fox in hiz parish wants a good phatt goose, he will work hard tew git him the goose, and having cleaned the meat all oph from the subburbs ov the goose, giv hiz politikal friend the bones, telling him with a smile in hiz eye, "_that every thing iz lovely and the goose hangs hi_." [_Advertisement._] _MADAM FILKINS LIQUOR FOR BABES._ Cures hooping coff, meazels, pane in the side, mumps, teething, cancer, rickets, redgum, and bawling. Cures gout, hang nails, _wont go tew sleep_, stummak ake, and _want every thing they see_. Removes warts, wens, wigglings, an wizenface. Mothers lament for Madam Filkins liquor for babes. Babes bawl for it. Nurses pray for it. Fathers buy it bi the barrell. 30 Days. NOVEMBER. 1871. Q.--What iz ginger pops? @ @ @ @ A.--Gim-nastick water. @ @ @ @ @ [Illustration] _The bullfrog haz hung up hiz fiddle, The bug and the cricket are still; No more can be heard in the marshes, The musketo fileing hiz bill._